Ambassador to Beijing Olympics to give F&ES lecture
Xiaoyi (Sheri) Liao, the Chinese environmental ambassador to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee, will visit the campus on Monday, Nov. 6.
Her talk, titled "China and the Environment: The Impact of NGOs, Culture and Growth," will take place at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
Liao is one of China's best-known environmental activists and journalists and is president of the Global Village of Bejing, a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to environmental education and community service. For her efforts, she received the 2001 International Banksia Award from the Banksia Environmental Foundation in Australia. The award acknowledges individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to improving the global environment.
Liao founded the Global Village of Beijing in 1996 with her personal savings, and focused her efforts on raising environmental awareness and building support for sustainable development in China. Her organization produces a weekly television series, "Time for Environment," which is broadcast nationwide in China, conducts training and networking for journalists, and organizes annual Earth Day events.
In 2000, she received the Sophie Prize, an international environment and development prize established in 1997 by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder.
The Yale Center for British Art will host a lecture by architect Peter Inskip on Monday, Nov. 6.
Inskip will discuss "Moggerhanger: A Soane Masterpiece Unveiled" at 5:30 p.m. at the center, 1080 Chapel St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/ycba.
Inskip, whose expertise lies in the historic built environment, is the director in charge of historic buildings at the architectural firm Peter Inskip and Peter Jenkins in London. His professional work includes the adaptation of Somerset House as a new cultural center overlooking the Thames, the restoration of Waddesdon Manor and the Albert Memorial, and work on the restoration of Stowe.
He has served on the architectural advisory committees of the British National Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and English Heritage and the World Monuments Fund. During the last decade, Inskip has been instrumental in introducing the use of conservation plans in the United Kingdom.
Internationally acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan will read from his work on Wednesday, Nov. 8.
The reading, part of the Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series, will take place at 7 p.m. in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
McEwan won the Booker Prize for his novel "Amsterdam" in 1998. His 2002 book "Atonement" won numerous prizes, including the W.H. Smith Literary Award, National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. A film version of the novel directed by Joe Wright is currently in production. McEwan's 1997 novel "Enduring Love" was made into a film directed by Roger Mitchell and released in 2004.
McEwan's most recent novel, "Saturday," follows neurosurgeon Henry Perowne through London on Feb. 13, 2003, the day of a major international protest against the war in Iraq.
This month he was awarded the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund was established in 1999 by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schlesinger of Pound Ridge, New York, as a memorial to their son. The fund enriches the experiences of student writers in Yale College by supporting annual visits to campus by distinguished or emerging authors.
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British Art Center talk will focus on the Moggerhanger House
Celebrated novelist will read from his work
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